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Designing Work Oriented Infrastructures

The implementation of information technology in attempts to improve a work process can at times prove to be more damaging than positive in a workplace. In this article we have seen ideas on how “work oriented infrastructures” should be viewed in attempts to effect change on a particular work infrastructure. This publication is targeted not only at those persons implementing systems such as PACS and RIS, but also, to anyone who has input in designing infrastructures that will have an effect on any work tasks. The authors also want to make the distinction that they do not see “infrastructure as a purified technology, but rather in a perspective where the technology cannot be separated from social and other non-technological elements” (Hanseth, O., Lundberg, N. (2001), pg. 349). Throughout the article we have seen that anything related to, or, anything that helps accomplish a particular task be referred to as infrastructure.
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